| WAVELL | Archibald ___, senior British Army officer who served as Viceroy of India between 1943 and 1947 (6) |
| DONITZ | Karl --, commander in chief of the German navy between 1943 and 1945 (6) |
| SATRAP | ... rejecting role as viceroy (6) |
| MALABAR | A region along the southwest coast of India, between the Arabian Sea and the Western Ghats (7) |
| MALABARCOAST | Region of India between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea |
| SEXAGENARIAN | Arrived between 1943-1952 for one from the sixties (12) |
| KHYBERPASS | Mountain route in the Hindu Kush, garrisoned by the British intermittently between 1839 and 1947 |
| PEGOMYHEART | Classic song about an Irish lass that was a #1 hit in 1913 and 1947 |
| COLWYNBAY | Welsh seaside resort that hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1910 and 1947 |
| LYTTON | 1st Baron -; title of the author of The Last Days of Pompeii whose son was appointed Viceroy of India in 1875 by friend Benjamin Disraeli (6) |
| CURZON | Viceroy of India to incur zoning restrictions (6) |
| MAURYA | They had an empire in India between 322 and 184 B.C. (6) |
| LOCATE | Find army officer who turned back and consumed (6) |
| ERNSTS | Director Mr. Lubitsch of "Heaven Can Wait" (1943), and namesakes |
| DAGAMA | He was named viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524 |
| CUSTER | US army officer who met his end at Little Bighorn |
| JUNIOR | _ Senior, 'Move Your Feet' pop duo (6) |
| SHAND | Bruce ___, British Army officer who died in 2006; father of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall (5) |
| MOUNTBATTEN | Louis, British statesman, naval leader and the last Viceroy of India (11) |
| BATTENBERG | A cake and (in translation) a viceroy of India were named after this German town |